Will the next GOP candidate be able to pick up blue states like...

[usregimechange]

Virginia
North Carolina
Florida
Ohio
Iowa
New Mexico
Nevada
Colorado
and
Indiana?

:shrug:

[louis-t]

1. I almost fell off my chair when Ohio and Florida

went blue last night.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Not if Dems do the job voters elected them to do.

[Demeter]

3. The Candidate Would Have to Be Smart and Progressive

Do you know of any GOP talent that could even remotely resemble that?

[Overseas]

4. Every candidate is welcome to make their case; its efficacy, however,

varies widely, depending upon the angle the GOP aka Republicans decide to take next. The GOP aka Republican Party has lots of soul searching yet to do.

They are slimeballs who bankrupt our national treasury by giving tax cuts to the super-rich who don't need them, while allowing our wages to decline and our jobs to be shipped overseas and 700 billion dollars of ours to clear up mistakes made by Wall Streeters who make millions of dollars per year.

Trickle Down is bankrupt, thanks to the crudeness of Republican rule-- had they left in some regulations to distribute the proceeds more equitably, our current crunch could perhaps have been avoided. But Republicans wanted to push it to the wall-- crush any namby pamby bit of sharing, they seemed to say-- "Country Club First." And paparazzi gossip TV culture helped us wallow in the glaring discrepancies in wealth; they blared at us from the TV. So this time, after the housing bubble and ghost instrument swapping bubble have burst, the idea of sharing in some of the wealth being distributed to assist Wall Street didn't sound too bad to the millions of people stuck with punishing mortgages or losing homes.

Finally, the people took a look past the publicity and PR material right to the policies--
== McShame wants to tax your medical benefits as income.
== Obama will not raise taxes on anyone making $250K or less. And I'd get a tax cut.

The policies The policies !
So exciting that the policies won !
Go Science !

So you see, Republicans have a long long way to go. The culture war stuff is destructive and limited and shallow-- they'll want to let that go and think of something else. I've heard talk about Democrats going really progressive, so Republicans can have a bit of moderate territory to show leadership within.